Ms
Cathie Hammond
PhD student, University of Essex

Cathie Hammond is an ESRC-funded PhD student. Her interests currently include health inequalities, social and psychological determinants of health, and stress as a mechanism through which exposures affect health, generally, but also with specific reference to immune dysregulation and immune-mediated conditions such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.

She has previously conducted research about adult learning and its contribution to health and well being, motviations for and social benefits of adult learning, family learning, the use of multiple methods, the instituional responsee to poorly understood health conditions, and outcomes of living in social housing.